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What does the "middle way" refer to?

A Scandinavian response to the Great Depression.

What did the schlieffen plan call for in 1914?

A lightning attack through neutral Belgium and a quick defeat of France before turning on Russia.

What kind of world of Franz Kafka portray in fiction like The Trial (1925)?

A pessimistic world in which helpless individuals are crushed by inexplicably hostile forces.

What was the sykes-picot agreement of 1916?

An agreement between great britain and frnace to divvy up parts of the middle east after the war.

What was the February revolution in Russia in 1917?

And unplanned uprising of hungry and angry people in the capital.

What did the Balfour declaration of November in 1917, written by the British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour, announce?

Britain favored a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.

What agreement did the United States develop to resolve the economic problems of Germany and international tensions in Europe in 1924?

Dawes plan.

What did Marcel Proust attempt to do in his novel remembrance of things past?

Discover that in their meaning of bittersweet memories of childhood a youthful love.

In 1923, which German politician called of Passive resistance in the Ruhr and agreed in principle to pay reparations?

Gustav Stresemann

What did the swedish response to the depression involve?

Increasing social welfare benefits and state spending on public works projects.

What is the popular front do after it's 1936 victory in France?

It encourage the union movement and launched a far-reaching program of social reforms that included a 40 hour work week.

Who is the director of triumph of the will, a brilliant piece of cinematic propaganda based on the 1934 Nazi party rally at Nuremberg?

Leni Riefenstahl

What did the theories of Albert Einstein assert?

Matter and energy are interchangeable, linking the apparently infinite universe with the subatomic world.

What did the Petrograd Soviet army order no. 1 state?

Military offices were stripped of their authority and power was placed in the hands of elected committees of soldiers.

In the early 20th century, the traditional arts and amusements of people and villages and small towns was overshadowed by

Modern mass media such a cinema and radio.

What was the main argument of logical positivism in the 20th century?

Philosophy is the only logical clarification of thoughts.

Following the First World War, what was one of the most difficult domestic problems faced by governments?

Providing care for the large number of injured veterans.

The signatories of the 1928 Kellogg Briand pact, initiated by the French prime minister aristide Briand and the US that gets secretary of state frank b. Kellogg agreed to

Renounce war as an instrument of international policy.

what did John Paul Sartre mean by the expression "Existence precedes essence"?

Since there are no timeless or absolute truths people must struggle to define their essence after they are born completely on their own.

What did Germany's auxiliary service law require?

That all men between 17 and 60 work at jobs considered critical to the war effort.

What was the immediate cause of British entry into the First World War?

The German invasion of neutral Belgium.

In his writings on human psychology Sigmund Freud asserted that

The ID is the unconscious source of sexual and aggressive instincts.

Germany's initial offensive was stopped on the outskirts of Paris at the battle of

The Marne.

Why were the Balkans considered the "powder keg of Europe"?

The Ottoman Empire had been forced to give up its territory in the region, leading to growing ethnic nationalism.

Which of the following best describes the reason why, despite efforts to lessen the possibility of another major conflict, World War II began only twenty years after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles?

The Versailles settlement assigned guilt and reparations for World War I to Germany.

In his philosophical writings Frederick Nietzsche argued that

The Western world had overemphasized rationality and stifled the authentic passions that drive human activities and true creativity.

What was the fatal turning point in the Russian prosecution of the war?

The tsar decision to assume command of Russia's armies leaving the government in the hands of the strong willed autocratic tsarina.

How did the war on the eastern front differ from the war on the western front?

The war on the eastern front remained more mobile, with Germany in a more dominant position.

What was the common effect of western-front offensives during the First World War?

They caused the slaughter of massed infantry units.

Why did the Germans accept the treaty of Versailles?

They had little alternative, especially as the naval blockade was still in place and the German people were starving.

How did France and Belgium react when Germany refused to make its second reparations payment?

They occupied the Ruhr district.

For artists such as the dadaists and surrealists, what was the purpose of art?

To expose the bankruptcy of modern society and produce radical social change.

Which of these best describes why much of wilson's plan for restoring peace and stability in the aftermath of World War I was rejected?

Wilsonian idealism clashes with postwar realities in both the victorious and the defeated states.

In civilization and it's discontents (1930), Freud argued that civilization required

individuals to renounce their irrational instincts in order to live peaceably in groups.